Schools for retarded children

The settlements policy has retarded the process.

Blood flow is slowly retarded a week later the parts in question fall off.

Co founder of ASENIR (First Ecuadorian Association for the Care of the Mentally Retarded)

He has since passed away, but was mentally retarded and suffers from severe bone abnormalities.

States should consider the adoption of special laws to protect the mentally retarded, incorporating existing international standards.

However, Bahrain and Morocco reported that they had no laws to prohibit the execution of the mentally retarded.

In fact, according to JFBA, the court finds even the most mentally retarded people are completely mentally competent.

1968 1970 Medical Doctor Lynchburg Training School and Hospital for the Mentally Retarded, Lynchburg, Va., United States of America

Even though most responding countries state that the insane and the mentally retarded are shielded from the infliction of the death penalty and especially from execution, reports of mentally ill and retarded persons facing the death penalty have continued to emerge during the five years covered by the seventh survey.

The Special Rapporteur also took action on behalf of two mentally retarded persons on whom capital punishment was imposed in the United States.

The Special Rapporteur may, moreover, intervene if the convicted person is a minor, mentally retarded or insane, a pregnant woman or a recent mother

Lectures and workshops were held on a variety of issues, including causes of disability, prevention of disability and caring for mentally retarded and disabled children.

And as a result, when those rats grow up, their pups experience retarded growth and development because they can't make enough milk to nourish their pups.

The reply from Trinidad and Tobago stated that the law did not allow the mentally retarded or those of extremely limited mental competence to be sentenced to death.

An issue of special concern to the Special Rapporteur remains the imposition and application of the death penalty on persons reported to be mentally retarded or mentally ill.

The Special Committee was informed by witnesses that, on occasion, some settlers who had attacked Palestinian children were not prosecuted because they were pronounced as being mentally retarded .

In this regard, the report has highlighted the necessity of clarifying the safeguards to be applied to the mentally ill as opposed to the insane or the mentally retarded.

The imposition of the death penalty on mentally retarded persons, the lack of adequate defence, the absence of obligatory appeals and racial bias continue to be the main concerns.

Of 7,491 mentally retarded persons, 3,299 were female, 980 were in the 10 to 19 age group and they came mainly from the provinces of Panamá, Chiriquí and Veraguas.

Special educational programmes for students with retarded psychic development and learning difficulties or severe speech impediments are planned for a period of 10 years for the acquisition of general primary education.

While the force headquarters and the integrated support services reached operational readiness roughly on schedule, the delays described above retarded the deployment of protection and enabling forces in the seven operational sectors.

Landmines and unexploded ordnance still threatened people and retarded development in many countries that issue constituted one of the many serious obstacles to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and the eradication of poverty.

The repatriation of Rwandan refugees, which had been unprecedented both in its scale and complexity, had not only retarded the recovery and development of their war torn country, but had also created new tensions and violence.

But it appears that this is only insofar as mental retardation falls within the concept of abnormality of mind, defined as a condition of arrested or retarded development of mind or inherent causes or induced by disease or injury .

The Monitoring Group notes, however, that the lack of an established central Government in Somalia and the current elevated threat of widespread hostilities has severely retarded, if not put on hold for the time being, serious countrywide capacity building efforts.

In compliance with this Declaration, SOI has endeavoured to increase the number of participating countries which has nearly doubled since 1992 and to give an opportunity to mentally retarded athletes from around the world to participate in Olympic style international games.

The work undertaken by SOI during the period under review was in accordance with, and complements the, world programme of action as set forth by the Declaration on the Rights of Mentally Retarded Persons which was adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 1971, resolution 2856 (XXVI).

Until the nineteenth century, innovation was carried out mostly by generalists and tinkerers, which meant that the accumulation of new knowledge was slow, but that its diffusion across different fields was rapid. In the twentieth century, knowledge creation became the job of specialists, which accelerated knowledge creation but retarded inter disciplinary application.

There has also been progress in abolishing the mandatory imposition of the death sentence in several countries and in restricting further the imposition of the death penalty on those under the age of 18 at the time of the offence and on those who are mentally retarded or suffering from mental illness.

It is evident that principally due to the unequal and unfair system of international trade, the dominant neoliberal economic arrangements globally, the damning neglect of poor countries by many rich ones, the ravages of nature, and poor governance in many developing countries progress towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals has been significantly retarded.

Thailand replied that the mentally retarded or those of extremely limited mental competence may not be sentenced to death because section 78 of the Thai Penal Code allows extenuating circumstances to be taken into account by the Court, which may if it thinks fit, reduce the punishment to be inflicted on the offender by not more than one half .

180. Notwithstanding any special measures adopted for the disabled, it may be noted that, as far as minors with physical or mental disabilities are concerned, Argentina has brought its legislation into line with the Declaration on the Rights of Mentally Retarded Persons and the Declaration on the Rights of Disabled Persons, which were proclaimed by the United Nations in 1971 and 1975, respectively.

Those in positions of responsibility have an extra responsibility to ensure that information requested and prepared will be transmitted in full and in no way retarded, edited or censored. We deplore the action that occurred in connection with this matter. We urge that it never occur again. Transparency is the watchword and it applies to all of us, not just on matters of particular interest to us.